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☯ NNTP Client-Server Communication Process: News Posting and Access .........1505
☯ NNTP Commands......................................................................................................1509
☯ NNTP Command Extensions....................................................................................1512
☯ NNTP Status Responses and Response Codes.....................................................1517
☯ TCP/IP World Wide Web (WWW, "The Web") and the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP).............................................................................1522
☯ TCP/IP World Wide Web and Hypertext Overview and Concepts..................1523
☯ World Wide Web and Hypertext Overview and History .........................................1523
☯ World Wide Web System Concepts and Components ..........................................1525
☯ World Wide Web Media and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) ................1528
☯ World Wide Web Addressing: HTTP Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) ..........1533
☯ TCP/IP Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) ....................................................1536
☯ HTTP Overview, History, Versions and Standards ................................................1537
☯ HTTP General Operation and Connections ............................................................1540
☯ HTTP Operational Model and Client/Server Communication .........................1540
☯ HTTP Transitory and Persistent Connections and Pipelining........................1543
☯ HTTP Persistent Connection Establishment, Management and
Termination .........................................................................................................1545
☯ HTTP Messages, Message Formats, Methods and Status Codes ........................1548
☯ HTTP Generic Message Format.........................................................................1548
☯ HTTP Request Message Format........................................................................1550
☯ HTTP Response Message Format.....................................................................1553
☯ HTTP Methods.....................................................................................................1555
☯ HTTP Status Code Format, Status Codes and Reason Phrases....................1559
☯ HTTP Message Headers ...........................................................................................1565
☯ HTTP General Headers.......................................................................................1565
☯ HTTP Request Headers ......................................................................................1569
☯ HTTP Response Headers ...................................................................................1573
☯ HTTP Entity Headers ..........................................................................................1575
☯ HTTP Entities, Transfers, Coding Methods and Content Management ...............1578
☯ HTTP Entities and Internet Media Types ..........................................................1578
☯ HTTP Data Transfer, Content Encodings and Transfer Encodings ...............1580
☯ HTTP Data Length Issues, "Chunked" Transfers and Message Trailers.......1583
☯ HTTP Content Negotiation and "Quality Values" ............................................1587
☯ HTTP Features, Capabilities and Issues .................................................................1590
☯ HTTP Caching Features and Issues..................................................................1590
☯ HTTP Proxy Servers and Proxying ...................................................................1594
☯ HTTP Security and Privacy ................................................................................1597
☯ HTTP State Management Using "Cookies" ......................................................1599
☯ Gopher Protocol (Gopher) ...........................................................................1603
☯ TCP/IP Interactive and Remote Application Protocols ........................1607
☯ Telnet Protocol..............................................................................................1608
☯ Telnet Overview, History and Standards .........................................................1608
☯ Telnet Connections and Client/Server Operation ...........................................1611
☯ Telnet Communications Model and the Network Virtual Terminal (NVT) .....1613
☯ Telnet Protocol Commands...............................................................................1617
☯ Telnet Interrupt Handling Using Out-Of-Band Signaling: The Telnet
Synch Function ..................................................................................................1620
☯ Telnet Options and Option Negotiation ...........................................................1622
☯ Berkeley Remote ("r") Commands..............................................................1628
☯ Berkeley Remote Login (rlogin)........................................................................1628
☯ Berkeley Remote Shell (rsh)..............................................................................1630
☯ Other Berkeley Remote ("r") Commands (rcp, ruptime, rwho) ......................1631